Improvement in apparatus for collecting sap from trees



- two edges on its upper surt'aceand bent atit's extremities into a hooked-form, audalso by upper surface of the cover to admit the spring the ledges, is bent into the form shown in Fig."

4, are let into the extremities of the ledges 2 2' UNITED STAT S PATENT 1 OFFICE.

ELHANAN' W. ORMSBEE, or MOETPELIER, Viennese,

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS-FOB "cotttcn nc YS AP rson' TREES.

Specification forming'part of Letters Patent No. 99,905. dated September 4,1860.

To all whom it'mag concern:

Be it known that I, ELHANAN W. ORMS- BEE, of Montpelier, in the county of Washington and Stateof Vermout, have invented a certain Improvement in Govers i'orSap-Buck, ets, thccoustruction and operation of which 1 have described in the following specifica- -tion and illustratedinits accompanying drawings with sufficient clearnessto enable-com petentand skillful workmen in the arts to which it pertainsor is most nearly allied to make and usev my invention.

It has often been a matter of serious comqslaint on the-part of the collectors of sap from trees into buckets that'in consequence of the want of a, cover to the bucket the sap is so much defiled by impurities of different kinds mingling with it as to become in many cases worthless.

My invention is intended to remedy this defeet; and it consists in providing. a cover whit. by means of a spring passed through means of two projecting points on one of the edges of the said cover, I am enabled to fasten the cover to the bark of the tree from which the sap is being drawn and immediately over the sap-bucket, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is aplan of the cover. Fig.2 is a side elevation. 1 is the cover, on which are planted the ledges 2, which project suflicientiy above the 3. This spring, after being passed through 1 and the extremities turned into a hooked shape-the points projecting inwardly, as shown on the same figure. Two iron points, 4

. as shown. the position shown in Fig.2, and'the arms be- -me'by Letters Patent, is-s and secured there, but in such a manner as to allow them to project sutficiently to be iuserb .ing's. 5 is the sap-bucket,whicb is ma'de ot' the usual form, and attached to the tree 6 in the usual manner, receiving" the s'np through thespout7..'-

I The mode'of operation is assfollows: When the bucket 5 andlspout 7 have been fixedin position in the usual manner, the points 4 4.-of the cover are forced into the bark of the tree, The spring 3 is then raised into iug opened sufficientiy, the hooked ends are insortedintothe bark of thetremas shown in Fig. 1, in which situation they are firmly held by the recoil ot' the spring, care being taken to tix the upper ends of the spring in such a position as to allow the cover to have a sufficient'drip outward from thetree to discharge nuykind of dirt'or other impurity which may fall upon it.

It wilt be seen that from'this simple but effective arrangementof parts I am. enabled to attach the coverto the'tree at fourpoints and at any required height above the bucket, todetach it again-with much ease, and to give it any. degree of inclinatiou which may be necessary for throwing 0d the impurities which may fall upon it.

. Having thus fuilydescribedmy invention, what I claim, and desire to havesecured to The cover 1, the ledges 2 2, the spring 3,

hooked or bent at the ends, as described, and

the points 4 4, when the whole are combined andarranged with each other in the manner hereinbefure described, and for the purpose stated.

E. W. ORMSBEF..

Witnesses: I

CHAS. D. SWASEY, '1. DUDLEY. 

